Everything about this is horrifying. Hundreds of women from Sub-Saharan African countries reportedly raped in past 18 months, people being beaten and abandoned in the desert, by a police force Europe is funding. Starmer should not be ‘learning’ anything from this www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded forces in Tunisia

Keir Starmer says he wants to learn from Italy’s ‘dramatic’ statistics. But a Guardian investigation reveals that EU money goes to officers who are involved in shocking abuse, leaving people to die in...

UN human rights experts (including Special Rapporteurs on the protection of HR while countering terrorism and on on extrajudicial executions) condemned the manipulation of electronic devices to explode simultaneously across Lebanon&Syria as potential violations of IHL www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Exploding pagers and radios: A terrifying violation of international law, say UN experts

GENEVA (19 September 2024) – UN human rights experts* today condemned the malicious manipulation of thousands of electronic pagers and radios to explode simultaneously across Lebanon and Syria as “ter...

and even more gruesome updates today: it looks like RSF members have been posting videos online of their conducts (potentially amounting to war crimes), including torturing people and setting villages on fire in Darfur www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Sudanese rebels appear to be posting self-incriminating videos of torture and arson on social media

Footage that seems to show fighters glorifying abuse of prisoners with ‘little fear of consequences’ could be used in war crimes prosecutions

What did I just read?? www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Dozens of Hezbollah members wounded in Lebanon when pagers exploded, sources and witnesses say

Dozens of members of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah were seriously wounded on Tuesday in Lebanon's south and the southern suburbs of Beirut when the pagers they use to communicate exploded, security sources told Reuters.

“Sudan's war has already killed tens of thousands of people, with some estimates as high as 150,000.” Lest not forget Sudan and Sudanese people!

Awful news from Sudan: it’s been reported that fighting is intensifying in North Darfur, where the city of El-Fasher would be besieged and under bombardment www.yahoo.com/news/sudanes...

Sudanese city pounded as analysts report 'unprecedented' combat

Heavy fighting on Saturday shook a Sudanese city besieged by paramilitaries, witnesses told AFP, as US researchers reported unprecedented and escalating combat in the North Darfur state capital.In the...

Very important long read from @theguardian-mwr.bsky.socialwww.theguardian.com/world/2024/s...

Kudos to the Leiden Journal of International Law for deciding to publish all articles open access 👏 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“Israel’s siege now blocks 83% of food aid reaching Gaza, new data reveals” www.nrc.no/news/2024/se...

This is a terrific resource! The reporting team of the "In the Dark" podcast (from The New Yorker @newyorker.com.web.brid.gywww.newyorker.com/podcast/in-t...

The War Crimes That the Military Buried

The largest known database of possible American war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan shows that the military-justice system rarely punishes perpetrators.